🏆 You built Snake!

You finished Project 5 — Snake! 🐍

From print('Hello') all the way to a real, playable arcade game. Show your parents. Show your friends. You wrote every single line. 🙌

What’s in your Snake game

• A green checkerboard built with nested for loops
• A blue snake stored as a list of (x, y) positions
• A game loop with screen.ontimer that ticks every 150 ms
• A move() function that slides the snake (add head, drop tail)
• Four go_* functions wired to the arrow keys with screen.onkey
• A red apple at a random spot, drawn with a separate pen
• A score counter drawn with pen.write
• The growing trick: skip the pop when you eat
• Wall + self collision detection, ending the game with return

🧩 Want to tinker?

• Make the snake faster by changing 150 in screen.ontimer(move, 150) to 80. Slower? Try 300.
• Change the snake color with snake_pen.color(...).
• Make the board bigger by changing range(20) to range(25) (also bump screen.setup to 600×600 and the starting position math).
• Make eating give 2 points instead of 1.
• Add a second apple at the same time!

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🚀 Last project

In Project 6 — Invent Your Own, the page is blank. Make something yours — a story, art, a new game. Whatever you can dream up.

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